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Re: ESS-00 ContentHints Attribute

1997-11-26 09:01:47
What advantage is there to putting ContentHints in the unauthenticated
attributes?

If it us an issue, I can change the name of the OID Arc so that it is
attributes (authenticated and unauthenticated) without changing the numbers.

Russ

At 05:10 AM 11/26/97 PST, Scott Hollenbeck wrote:
Section 1.3.4 of the 18 November ESS-00 documents says that
a contentHints attribute has a "MUST BE authenticated" value
of "no".  However, the OID registry found at

http://www.imc.org/ietf-smime/oids.html

Lists the id-aa-contentHint attribute under the authenticated
attributes arc.  In my mind, this implies that the attribute
must be authenticated if present.  Should the attribute
always be authenticated (thus requiring a change to ESS-00),
or should we add an arc for attributes that can be either
authenticated or not?

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Scott Hollenbeck (mailto: hollenbe(_at_)east(_dot_)xsis(_dot_)xerox(_dot_)com)
Xerox Special Information Systems
Arlington, Virginia, USA



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